http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra Interviews with algebra teachers. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:57:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Julie O'Connor is an ESL teacher with this helpful math video on TeacherTube. Do you teach students who are already familiar with the math concepts themselves, but don't know enough English to talk about them? Or are they being exposed to the math concepts for the first time? What's the situation ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/esl-and-math/ Juan is a private tutor in San Diego, and he's got a blog about math tutoring. Why is May the high season for math tutoring? May is a high season for math tutoring because many students are preparing to take their final exams before the summer vacation. Suddenly they realize the once ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/tutor-strategy/ Algebra2Go creator Larry Perez talks about his online algebra resource and how he's helping hard-to-reach students. (Part 1 of 2) How did you write the scripts for your videos? Did you try out your material on live students before recording? I'm imagining it like a sitcom, testing out your material with a ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/how-video-lectures-help/ Kristine Mackowski is a special education teacher in New York.Check out her videos at Teacher Tube! Are there any tips you've accumulated from your experience with teaching algebra that you'd like to share? I find that the use of manipulatives work well for my population of students. For example, when teaching one ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/tips-and-more-tips/ Have you noticed any characteristics of students who seem to understand algebra faster? What about slower? Students who understand algebra faster are the students who have a full mastery of rational numbers. These students can concentrate on learning the algebra instead of learning or relearning the concepts along with the algebra. Also, ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/master-rational-numbers/ Here's 'Heathen Mom' from http://www.heathenhomeschoolers.com After reading your blog some more, am I right in assuming you haven't gotten to algebra yet in your teaching experience? (your kids are pretty young) I was a classroom teacher in the past. I have taught prealgebra. I have also taught stats. I am interested in stressing to parents ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/early-algebra/ How do you handle a student who gets a little too excited about the subject and becomes disruptive? Maybe a little disruption is fine? A little disruption is fine.  The trick is to not let the student take over the class.  It's important to get some other students involved.  Ask other ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/excited-students/ Here's Erika from Florida discussing practice and overcoming a topic's bad reputation. Do you give practice problems every night? I do give practice problems almost every night.  I think it's one of the most important things to do, because math, especially algebra, isn't something you can learn by just looking at it ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/practice/ To start things off here's Anonymous from California. Do you try to get into a certain mindset before starting an algebra class? I try to bring an interesting fact from science or a joke or a personal story to start the class with.  That helps to draw the students away from thier conversations and ... http://www.algebravision.com/teaching-algebra/setting-the-mood/